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Potential cause identified for prostate cancer treatment resistance among African-American men
5/02/2016
Improper functioning of the mitochondria, a cell's source of energy, may help account for the fact that African-American men with prostate cancer respond poorly to the same conventional therapies...
Black patients from segregated neighborhoods were less likely to receive lung cancer surgery
5/02/2016
Black residents of highly segregated neighborhoods were less likely to receive surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) than their peers in less-segregated neighborhoods finds a...
Good long-term quality of life after 'DIEP flap' breast reconstruction
5/02/2016
For women who have undergone mastectomy for breast cancer, breast reconstruction using the abdominal "DIEP flap" provides good long-term quality of life (QOL)--similar to that of women without breast...
A new analysis indicates that a type of psychotherapy delivered by videoconference may help prevent some of the long-term memory issues caused by chemotherapy.
New cancer drugs could treat lethal resistant prostate cancers
5/01/2016
Men with aggressive prostate cancer that has stopped responding to conventional treatment could potentially benefit from a new class of cancer drug designed to overcome drug resistance, a new study...
Quality of prostate cancer care improving in Victoria
5/01/2016
Research published in Medical Journal of Australia has found that the overall quality of care for prostate cancer patients has improved in Victoria.
Major changes in breast cancer surgery to meet quality-of-life outcomes
5/01/2016
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in Australian females; however, as the 5-yearsurvival rate has increased to 90%, the quality-of-life outcomes are increasingly important...
Radiation and immunotherapy combination can destroy both primary and secondary tumours
4/30/2016
Radiation therapy not only kills cancer cells, but also helps to activate the immune system against their future proliferation.
Although the publication of results of clinical trials carried out in the US within 12 months of their completion has been mandatory since 2007, an astoundingly high number of Phase III radiotherapy...
Study links residential radon exposure to hematologic cancers in women
4/29/2016
A new report finds a statistically-significant, positive association between high levels of residential radon and the risk of hematologic cancer (lymphoma, myeloma, and leukemia) in women.